In Iowa, Donald Trump lashes out at 'media and political elite,' saying they don't know what it's...

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Robynn Tysver

SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Donald Trump lashed out at the political elite and the "media" on Sunday, saying they don't know what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck.

In a clear bid to his blue-collar base, Trump told a boisterous crowd of Iowans that if he's elected, he'll make sure their jobs stay in America and that their paychecks will rise.

"The politicians don't understand what it's like, the media and the political elite don't know," said the self-described New York billionaire.

Trump was making what will likely be his last appearance in Iowa before Tuesday's election. He appeared before more than 4,500 people, who stood in line for hours to get into the Sioux City Convention Center.

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[R Merm]

1. Like that ass does

[Lindalouuu]

3. Ditto. First thing that came to mind was exactly what you said.

[chillfactor]

2. 4,500 crazy and insane people..

in Iowa.

[displacedtexan]

23. Is that convention center tiny?

It only holds 4,500 people?

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Idiot is wasting his time in a state he will easily carry

He doesn't understand what he is doing. Ever.

Look at his business record. His personal life.

[erpowers]

42. He Knows What He Is Doing

I think he might just likes the attention. A few days ago he pointed out, in a speech, that his campaign team was trying to get him to go to areas of South Florida instead of North Florida. Their argument was what you mentioned; he was going to easily win North Florida. He needed to go to South Florida in order to try to convince more people to vote for him. He said he did not want to go to South Florida because all his supporters were in North Florida.

I think Donald Trump mainly likes walking into rooms where most, if not all, the people in the room will cheer for him. It is possible that for Donald Trump campaigning is about being in a room of people and being able to say, "look at all the people who love me".

[groundloop]

6. I was saving my 5000th post for something profound.... I think FUCK YOU Donald will do !!!!!!

Don-the-con has been spoiled his entire life, for him to even suggest that he has the tiniest inkling of what living paycheck-to-paycheck is like is an enormous insult to all working men and women. Don, I HAVE lived paycheck-to-paycheck, I worked my way through college, I've spent many months without a job worrying about whether or not I'd be able to keep my house, I'm attempting to help my kids through college as much as possible so they don't get screwed by the system which is now stacked against them. Donald, YOU JUST DON'T GET IT AND NEVER WILL.

[Maeve]

9. Don't you know how HARD it is to get by on only $450K a month?!?!?!?

Good post and happy 5,000th!

[cstanleytech]

30. Ha, I wish I had that kind of challenge. nt

[keithbvadu2]

36. Me too! I would be willing to risk failure.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

14. WOW - 5000th post!

Good use of that post - congratulations

[bdamomma]

26. .............well said

[judesedit]

29. Well,I'm sure daddy gave him a paycheck cause he's so bad with money. Of course it's a huge paycheck

Trump is a fool and a coward and a liar and a cheat and a thief, etc etc etc. Apparently these Iowans are so uneducated they can't see the forest for the trees. Poor bastards voting against themselves.

[erpowers]

43. Misinformed

I think a number of Donald Trump's supporters are misinformed. Some of his supporters actually believe he was a regular guy who worked hard, created a business with little to no help, and became a billionaire along the way. It does not help that for 30+ the media has helped to build the myth of Donald Trump. They promoted the stories of Trump being this awesome business man who built great businesses.

Even now some in the media do very little to destroy the myth of Donald Trump. A week or two ago I saw a news reporter make the statement, Donald Trump is right, while Hillary Clinton spent 30 years working in government Donald Trump was building a business. My thought at that comment was, "No, Donald Trump did not spend 30 years building a company. His father spent many years building a company and then passed that company down to his children". Maybe the people at Donald Trump rallies would be less supportive of him and his policies if they knew the truth about him.

[TimeToGo]

7. Uh . . . . .

[icymist]

8. Sheep being led to a wolf. nt

[C_U_L8R]

10. Trumps taking the pathetic route out.

You'd think with an ego that large, he'd have some self-respect.

[Arkansas Granny]

11. Good grief. That's as bad as Melania's remarks about bullying.

These people are totally oblivious to anything outside their narrow sphere of existence.

[japple]

12. Didn't he say earlier that he thought American workers were paid too

well? Didn't need that $12.00 per hour?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. The only thing Donald J tRump knows about "paycheck to paycheck" is stiffing small businesses

... stiffing small businesses and contractors and ordinary working people by non-payment and then saying

[font size = "+1"] . . . Sue me![/font]

[True_Blue]

35. Exactly! At least they get a paycheck.

Unlike working for Trump.

[neeksgeek]

15. Let me see if I understand this...

The man that said "Wages are too high" is going to "make sure... paychecks will rise." Did I hear him correctly?

Of course! He says that he never said "wages are too high." I get it now.

[Plucketeer]

19. Born with a silver spoon in both ends...

this ASS HAT can relate to groping from one payday to the next. Right! "Right" as in GOP - Right! as in WRONG.

Birthing another Trump ->

[judesedit]

20. Poor suckers. Do they realize Trump uses cheap labor overseas and makes nothing in America? Pathetic

And doesn't pay the people who work for him, lies to them literally constantly, etc etc etc. Are their heads up their asses or do they just have their noses so far up Trump's ass they can't see the light? It's really mind boggling. Trump has brought out the worst in people and they don't even know it. They think they're independent and strong when they are really puppets of the right wing bullshit. At least we know where they are now.

[Tempest]

21. Born on 3rd base, thinks he hit a triple. smh n/t

[getagrip_already]

33. More like born on second base and says hit hit a home run.....

The game is rigged and the refs are blind......

[judesedit]

22. Remind me never to go to Iowa

[bdamomma]

24. you know he can just shut up

he doesn't live paycheck to paycheck jerk

[FreeStateDemocrat]

25. Slipping away just when he had his hopes boosted by the phony FBI innuendo, he's a lowlife!!!

[judesedit]

27. Trump lives in his gold-plated tower & been privileged all his life.He's clueless. He doesn't even

appreciate it. Check out the pictures in Esquire magazine of the inside of Trump Tower. It's disgusting. He's stiffed so many people no one will work for him anymore.

[Liberalagogo]

28. ....jobs stay in America.....

[Enrique]

32. and if you work for Trump

you have to sue him to get your paycheck.

[kimbutgar]

34. Yeah says the guy who has never had calluses on his hands or worried about making rent

He has no idea. Someone gave him those fake lines.

[keithbvadu2]

37. Many of his contractors know what it's like not getting a paycheck.

[Mr. Ected]

38. Tens of millions of Americans who think that Gummint doesn't understand "The People"

But a lying, cheating businessman does.

Sometimes, I wish there was an alternate universe that would FORCE these idiots to live under the regimes they think they covet.

Would be terrific to see them perish in a hell of their own making.

[Historic NY]

39. Yeah and how bad it is to only get a small loan of 14 million from their daddies....

its was so hard.

[erpowers]

40. Nor Does He

Donald Trump does not know what it is like to live paycheck to paycheck. In addition, he is one of the guys that moved American jobs to foreign countries. He also hired illegal workers and paid them less than American workers.

[dalton99]

41. Yeah, the hand-to-mouth hard life of Donald Trump